{"id":3470,"date":"2019-06-28T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2019-09-09T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:31:10","slug":"college-counselor-compiles-summer-reading-list-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/college-counselor-compiles-summer-reading-list-2\/","title":{"rendered":"College Counselor Compiles Summer Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for summer reading suggestions for yourself or the students you serve?<\/p>\n

NACAC member Brennan Barnard has released his annual compilation of book recommendations.<\/p>\n

The full list\u00a0<\/a><\/u>\u2014 featuring titles suggested by college admission deans and counselors \u2014 appears on\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0website. Some selections are related to education, while other titles are simply good reads.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s list includes over 30 books. Both fiction and nonfiction titles are featured.<\/p>\n

Frances Jensen\u2019s\u00a0The Teenage Brain <\/em>appears alongside Fredrik Backman\u2019s buzzworthy novel, Beartown<\/em>. Also included are Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime<\/em>, Anthony Abraham Jack’s The Privileged Poor<\/em>, and The Stressed Years of Their Lives<\/em> by Janet Hibbs and Anthony Rostain.<\/p>\n

This is the seventh year that Barnard, director of college counseling at The Derryfield School (NH), has had his list published by a major US newspaper.<\/p>\n

The\u00a02014<\/a>,\u00a02015<\/a>,\u00a02016<\/a>, 2017<\/a>, and 2018\u00a0<\/a>editions were also picked up by\u00a0Post<\/em>;\u00a02013\u2019s list<\/a>\u00a0appeared in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Read more about this year\u2019s picks\u00a0<\/a><\/u>and check out\u00a0titles discussed<\/a>\u00a0by NACAC\u2019s online book club \u2014 #NACACreads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for summer reading suggestions for yourself or the students you serve? NACAC member Brennan Barnard has released his annual compilation of book recommendations. The full list\u00a0\u2014 featuring titles suggested by college admission deans and counselors \u2014 appears on\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0website. Some selections are related to education, while other titles are simply good reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-admission","category-featured"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/summerReading.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/summerReading.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/summerReading.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-TY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}